You are body surfing in modest waves that are breaking just offshore. A particularly big one catches you off guard, flips you over and over, and deposits you on the shore. As you lie there in the sand, you think, hey, I just landed on ________

A) a coastal dune B) the beachface
C) a nearshore bar (not the kind that serves drinks) D) the backshore


B

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